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March 30, 2010

Debate: Common Core Standards in K-12?

Ashley Thorne

Under pressure, 48 states have proposed common standards for grades K-12. Some of them are having second thoughts. Chester Finn says the standards should be taken seriously because they’re int......

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March 30, 2010

John Ellis Makes a Case for Intellectual Diversity

Ashley Thorne

"A lack of intellectual diversity hurts both left and right," contended John Ellis in a statement last week to the Joint Committee on the Master Plan for Higher Education of the California Legislatu......

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March 30, 2010

Roger Clegg: 6 Things to Say to Challenge "Diversity" Hiring

Ashley Thorne

For those readers who serve on faculty hiring committees, Roger Clegg, president of the Center for Equal Opportunity, offers strategies for speaking up when the committee begins to talk about "diver......

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March 30, 2010

10 Campus Sustainability News Stories

Ashley Thorne

Colleges create new sustainability programs and requirements, ASU publishes a student journal, universities participated in WWF's Earth Hour, and the sustainability generation comes of age.

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March 30, 2010

Collegiate Press Roundup 3-30-10

Glenn Ricketts

Students weigh in on hatred, social justice, the dying flame of feminism, gender inclusive language, Ann Coulter, and campus protest tactics.

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